Pour une Diplomatie Non Gouvernementale

The project activities had an impact on those platforms and NGOs that were directly involved but it is not clear how the platforms and networks will be sustainable in the longer term given the lack of a strategic fundraising approach. The grantee needs to search for alternative and diversified sources of funding to ensure continuity of the activities and optimization of the effects and impact of the initiatives undertaken.

The project could have expanded the nongovernmental diplomacy exercises by including alternative development paradigms. This would have increased understanding multinational dynamics and global problems. It could have also enhanced the effectiveness of civil society advocacy activities.

The project wide Facilitation Group played an important role. It focused on strengthening governance, institutionalizing and structuring the Forum. Focusing on governance allowed for the drafting of statutes, rules of procedure and a charter of values, all of which can contribute to longer term sustainability.

A partnership contract was drawn up by the project with each partner specifying its function, its responsibility and the management methods and the timetable for carrying out the activities. In addition to ensuring the administrative and financial management of the project, the grantee ensured that each partner has relevant monitoring tools.

Participants in the project expressed strong satisfaction with the skills and confidence they had gained: “We have become more credible actors with enhanced political impact. Although it is too early to appreciate the direct effects, we are confident that we will see them soon.”